The Oracle of Destruction

Thousands of dark chains were constantly moving in different directions with the tension rising by the second. Vane was tracing every Aether trace of the masked man, Even if his chains couldn't match the speed of the masked man, the continued bombardment of attacks still put him in a bad situation. Even though everything else was filled with complete silence the loud noise of chains hitting the ground reverberated around the now dimming sky, It was already evening.

The masked man was now using his longsword to constantly defend against the chains while moving at high speed, repetitively dodging skillfully every single attack. Bishops in the scene took the opportunity to evacuate citizens. With the masked man occupied by Vane, a few bishops aimed, shooting at him with revolvers.

Amalia pulled out her white-coloured longsword from it scrabbed held it tightly with both her hands and moved the sword down with extreme speed performing a powerful slash. It was aimed at the first house entering the street on the opposite side of where the fight was going on.

Vane attacked using hundreds of chains combined into one large dark black chain giving a dangerous aura, the attack instantly destroyed most of the houses in the street including Leor's while also destroying most of the land, creating huge craters everywhere it hit.

The masked man was now using his ability to the max, moving almost double the speed of sound dodging all the huge attacks one after another, just as he thought of making a distance with Vane to take a breath, He was shot with a bullet on his left shoulder which was moving way faster than before almost reaching his speed, He still dodged it by moving his shoulder avoiding the bullet aimed at his heart, And when he looked up Vane's attack was just 20 inches away from him, just about to crush him to nothingness.

He immediately rolled backwards in the opposite direction avoiding the painful death. What he saw frightened him, Amalia directly launched the slash when the masked man landed in perfect timing like she predicted he would dodge in that direction.

A flash of surprise flashed through his eyes, He tried to deflect the fast sword slash launched at him using his Longsword but Amalia had put as much Aether as her sword could hold and she was an exceptional swordswoman, Now this attack had her full might. The masked man's left arm was useless as well due to the injury on his shoulder.

As the sword slash clashed with the longsword of the masked who used all his strength and speed in this slash, a sharp sound reverberated everywhere with dirt, and gravel on the ground all flying in different directions, the force of the clash directly destroyed all of the areas around it like it was evaporated, all the Bishops of Ironbound were covering there eyes, getting pushed back by the force.

The surprising part was that the slash and longsword of the masked man hadn't even touched each other yet.

Before the masked man could catch his breath, Vane who was surrounded by dark black chains was standing straight still rushing forward.

 "Oblivion Lash," yelled Vane in a loud voice. All of the smaller chains around him rushed at high speed inside the ground while some combined and formed huge chains like the one he was using before.

he held three colossal chains, which hurtled towards the masked man's Aether signature, targeting the dust-filled area where visibility was low, forcing Vane to rely on Aether sensing alone.

Amalia was also constantly launching more slashes equally as powerful as before.

The dirt finally settled down and the masked man was bleeding all over from Amalia's slashes, his right hand was destroyed along with half his arm, his knees broken and half cut, Laying on the ground in a miserable state.

Vane was now also there, the chains he had launched in the ground also tightly wrapped around the body of the masked man, He grabbed him with his chains and picked the masked man up bringing him closer to check if he was still conscious. 'I should kill him now, It would be better and Master Aurelian said to kill every attacker till he gets there. We could see his memories through another means late' thought Vane and then decided, his eyes became firm as the chains holding the masked man grew tighter.

Blood was gushing out of his mouth, his breathing becoming faster and his face getting redder, Amalia on the other side had a satisfied tired look on her face.

With one thought Vane tightly shut his hand and made a fist, Finally Crushing the masked man to death.

Or so he thought, when suddenly the temperature of the whole area started rising in a single second, Pipes, pillars, and houses melting on the spot, Ironbound members were also no exception, their revolvers and swords started melting while they put all their effort into making their body colder by using Aether, but still some of their skin was melting.

Dark red dangerous flames started to rise on the ground and on the chains that were holding the masked man, Vane felt the heat on his chains and his grip started to weaken from feeling the burn, which immediately resulted in flame taking over the masked man's body and it looked like that the crimson flames were burning the masked man but it was the opposite, all the fatal injuries on the masked man's body healed in real-time in an instant, slowly growing new limbs while some of the masked man's flesh intertwined and healed itself, He was still unconscious though.

"Kaelen Ignis, The Oracle of destruction" Vane suppressing the pain frowned in pure Awe. 'Where are Master Aurilian and General Raiden, we will be wiped out including civilians if they don't come soon' thought Vane with some sadness and powerlessness.

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